Checkmate! This is a nice, short promo video for Lord Loss, made by a fan called Brandon. Nothing fancy on the technical front, but it goes to show that sometimes simple can be very effective....

The students at Team Kolbe House are studying Cirque Du Freak, and were challenged to come up with adverts for a vampire's assistant. You can see their wonderfully creative responses in the photo....

My son Dante adores his two grandmothers, and hopefully his baby sister Gaia will too as she grows up and gets to know them better. (Assuming they don't shuffle on off to Vampire Paradise any time...

A fan called Numie decided to do a cartoon-style drawing of Darren and Mr Crepsley from my Cirque Du Freak books, inspired by a panel in the manga series drawn by the wonderful Takahiro Arai. I...

Edinburgh is a beautiful, majestic city, worth a visit any time of the year, but it's especially worth visiting in August, when the Edinburgh International Book Festival runs for three glorious...

It's the start of a new month, which means... a new issue of the Shanville Monthly! For those unfamiliar with it, this is a monthly newsletter in which I round up the main bits of Darren Shan (and...